// From File var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.Load(filePath); // From String var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(html); // From Web var url = "http://html-agility-pack.net/"; var web = new HtmlWeb(); var doc = web.Load(url);
HAP is an HTML parser written in C# to read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT.
Web scraping is a technique used in any language such as C# to extract data from a website.
That's a gray zone! There is no official answer about it, and almost every company has some web scraping program. In short, do polite crawling and don't spam a website and everything will be fine.
There is no official date, but the work is in progress. A lot of improvement is already planned to make web scraping even easier!
You can enhance HAP with some third party libraries:
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